This article was corrected to show that 2,742 voters previously voted in the 2018 Primary. The error was caused by a programming error on our tool which has been corrected. Yesterday was the first day of the Early Voting period for the March 5 Primary. There were 4,421 ballots cast. This includes mail-in ballots that […]
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Early Voting For The March 5 Primary Starts Today – See Who Votes Each Day
The March 5 Primary voting period starts at 7:00am today in some early voting locations and later in the day at the other locations. The Early Voting period runs through March 1. In El Paso, most elections will be settled after the final ballot is cast on March 5. Some of the candidates will be […]
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Election Analysis: Who Are The El Paso Voters Being Targeted By Campaigns And Why
Political mailers have been hitting mailboxes over the last few weeks with the intensity increasing into the early voting period which begins on Tuesday. Election Day is March 5. The early voting period is scheduled to end on March 1st. As a Democratic Party stronghold, El Paso county-wide elections are generally settled in the March […]
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Vince Perez Remains In The Financial Lead According To Latest Finance Reports And Poll Shows Perez In Lead
The latest campaign finance reports were due on Monday. As we reported, Vince Perez has raised the most campaign contributions for the District 77 House of Representatives seat. Including the latest campaign finance reports, Perez has raised $59,728.26. Norma Chávez, at $37,440 in campaign contributions, has slightly overtaken Alexsandra Annello who dropped to third place […]
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Guest Editorial – Renard Johnson Is The New Beto
By: Max Grossman Renard Johnson is running for Mayor on a pro-Oligarchy platform. That means more large bond issuances for capital improvement projects and transportation infrastructure, generous incentives for large corporations, and higher taxes and fees for everyone. He has hired Veronica Escobar’s campaign manager and appointed a Kemp Smith attorney, County Judge Samaniego’s daughter, […]
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Amicus Brief Arguing That Peer-Review Be Limited To Protect Patients Filed In El Paso Children’s Hospital Case Before The Texas Supreme Court
As we previously reported, the Texas Supreme Court had provided the El Paso Children’s Hospital and the other defendants until Thursday of last week to submit a response to the Court on the ongoing malpractice litigation over the death of the daughter of David and Mariana Saucedo. The controversy before the Court is whether a […]
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Was Democratic Party Chair Michael Apodaca Improperly Manipulating Data To Influence The Josh Acevedo And Veronica Carbajal Election? See What Our Data Analysis Uncovered
Most El Paso Democratic Party candidates use NGP VAN, a Democratic Party voter outreach platform for running campaigns. What many candidates may not know is that the NGP VAN platform provides unprecedented access to certain individuals – like Michael Apodaca – that can provide an advantage to one campaign over another our analysis of the […]
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The Perimeter – Confronting the Enemy Within
By Aldo Mena When I first encountered David Siders’ Politico article entitled ‘There Are a Lot of Mexican People Looking Forward to Trump,” I was expecting to find some form of tangible empirical evidence supporting the rather bold assertion proclaimed in the article’s title. What I would discover instead was that Siders was relying upon […]
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The El Paso Children’s Hospital Is Before The Texas Supreme Court On Malpractice Case
David Saucedo and his wife filed a motion with the Texas Supreme Court in June 2022 after Judge Selena Solis ruled that an affidavit included in the original lawsuit must be removed from the public record. Central to the controversy is the so-called Mayes affidavit. The Mayes Affidavit (read the affidavit) was provided by Thomas […]
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Josh Acevedo Elected To District 2
Josh Acevedo outperformed Verónica Carbajal for the District 2 city council seat. Leading with about 180 votes during the early voting period, Acevedo increased his lead to 307 votes on Election Day, winning the seat 56% to 44%. The voter turnout was 2,748 (5.74%) of the registered voters in District 2. The turnout for the […]